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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

quilt contemplations, part two

Now that I've got plenty of Christmas fabric in my stash, my dilemma is which pattern to choose. For some crazy reason, I feel an urge to break out of my typical comfort zone (squares and rectangles) and try a pattern that uses ... triangles! Of course, my plan is to use a cheater short-cut method like the one found in this book, "Scrap-Basket Sensations" (basically I'll still be sewing with rectangles and squares ... you just sew diagonally across a square to create a triangle at the end of rectangular strip). If I'd only had this book when I made my last quilt using a jelly roll! As you can see, there are many patterns that have caught my eye ...